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A273602
Number of active (ON, black) cells in n-th stage of growth of two-dimensional cellular automaton defined by "Rule 805", based on the 5-celled von Neumann neighborhood.
4
1, 8, 21, 44, 69, 113, 145, 200, 249, 328, 397, 489, 537, 652, 741, 840, 913, 1088, 1205, 1380, 1477, 1632, 1737, 1900, 2017, 2248, 2405, 2624, 2741, 2968, 3157, 3368, 3501, 3788, 4089, 4312, 4505, 4776, 4965, 5260, 5393, 5760, 6101, 6456, 6653, 6940, 7225
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Initialized with a single black (ON) cell at stage zero.
REFERENCES
S. Wolfram, A New Kind of Science, Wolfram Media, 2002; p. 170.
MATHEMATICA
CAStep[rule_, a_]:=Map[rule[[10-#]]&, ListConvolve[{{0, 2, 0}, {2, 1, 2}, {0, 2, 0}}, a, 2], {2}];
code=805; stages=128;
rule=IntegerDigits[code, 2, 10];
g=2*stages+1; (* Maximum size of grid *)
a=PadLeft[{{1}}, {g, g}, 0, Floor[{g, g}/2]]; (* Initial ON cell on grid *)
ca=a;
ca=Table[ca=CAStep[rule, ca], {n, 1, stages+1}];
PrependTo[ca, a];
(* Trim full grid to reflect growth by one cell at each stage *)
k=(Length[ca[[1]]]+1)/2;
ca=Table[Table[Part[ca[[n]][[j]], Range[k+1-n, k-1+n]], {j, k+1-n, k-1+n}], {n, 1, k}];
Map[Function[Apply[Plus, Flatten[#1]]], ca] (* Count ON cells at each stage *)
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A180672 A152117 A075629 * A258448 A344599 A138179
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Robert Price, May 26 2016
STATUS
approved